I did NOT find this

[Joe-Dirt]

A friend of my diggin’ buddy popped this out over the weekend. I don’t know if he uses social media or not, so I don’t know if any of you all will get a chance to see it. When I saw it, I threw up, curled up in a ball and cried😔 I have no idea what the history of the site is, I just know the town.

 

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[against the wind]

Based on the PCGS grading site (https://www.pcgs.com/photograde#/DrapedDolLE/Grades), I would grade this VF-35. That gives it an estimated value of $3,000 (https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1799-1/6878). It's a "normal date, 7x6 stars on obverse, 13 star, no berries reverse". Beautiful coin!

Scott

I remember when Broadway Joe found a very rare half dollar. It was around an AU58 grade that the Red Book appraised around 40K. Well off to PCGS. It received an "Authentic" grade with environmental damage. Then it went to Heritage Auction. It sold for 10% of the Red Book price. (Almost 4 thousand dollars) Sometimes we think we have a very valuable coin, but years of the ground freezing and ground movement can cause tiny scratches that will bring down the value of the coin.

 

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[sprailroad]

I remember when Broadway Joe found a very rare half dollar. It was around an AU58 grade that the Red Book appraised around 40K. Well off to PCGS. It received an "Authentic" grade with environmental damage. Then it went to Heritage Auction. It sold for 10% of the Red Book price. (Almost 4 thousand dollars) Sometimes we think we have a very valuable coin, but years of the ground freezing and ground movement can cause tiny scratches that will bring down the value of the coin.

Yup, same thing kind of. Mine was a 1860 S Seated Liberty quarter, only 56,000 ever minted. Found it in rough sandy ground. Sent it in, it is now slabbed, marked "Authentic"....with a code# meaning "Cleaned". Oh well, it's mine. and I'll never find another one.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

From experience and reading accounts on TN stories like this usually start with "So a friend of mine found a 30 year old radio shack detector in his grandfathers closet so I took him to a field I've hit to death and he found this when he turned it on where we parked the car".

I love it... that's hilarious Mike!

 

[Xraywolf]

I'm not getting why so many guys would be aghast if their buddies found something good, its not even like you necessarily would have found it if he didn't.
I took my cousin to detect a beach I have been detecting for years, I even let him borrow my sand scoop, he had never detected in sand and very little anywhere else. He found an 18k gold bracelet honker, I think it weighed something like 70 grams, just a monster. I was thrilled for him, not a tinge of regret or jealousy, I was almost as excited for him as if I found it myself. Odds are I never would have found it anyhow, right by a footpath that I always avoid because there is so much trash by it, and it is pretty far from actual water. Seeing his excitement, high fiving, back slapping gave me a genuinely good feeling you couldn't get from much else, never crossed my mind to be spiteful like a 6 year old.

Still never detected by the footpath, not going to change my method based on a fluke. Found 4 gold rings and over a dozen silvers last year so I'm not complaining.

 

[whistler84]

Hory chit ratman. Excelsior!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I'm not getting why so many guys would be aghast if their buddies found something good, its not even like you necessarily would have found it if he didn't.
I took my cousin to detect a beach I have been detecting for years, I even let him borrow my sand scoop, he had never detected in sand and very little anywhere else. He found an 18k gold bracelet honker, I think it weighed something like 70 grams, just a monster. I was thrilled for him, not a tinge of regret or jealousy, I was almost as excited for him as if I found it myself. Odds are I never would have found it anyhow, right by a footpath that I always avoid because there is so much trash by it, and it is pretty far from actual water. Seeing his excitement, high fiving, back slapping gave me a genuinely good feeling you couldn't get from much else, never crossed my mind to be spiteful like a 6 year old.

Still never detected by the footpath, not going to change my method based on a fluke. Found 4 gold rings and over a dozen silvers last year so I'm not complaining.

Nice story. Where’d you bury him after you killed him with the sand scoop? (;

 

[Xraywolf]

Nice story. Where’d you bury him after you killed him with the sand scoop? (;

Not far from Hoffa !

 

[Colonial Digger]

Just amazing!! Hope theirs one left for you JOE DIRT!! good luck!

 

[Relicific]

Sweetness in all it’s glory

 

[RustyGold]

I need a hankie!

 

[Truth]

Please take this post down I think I’m becoming bulimic